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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Flaw Greatness Hide
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Herself Woman
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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Boredom Face Love Missing Myself Togetherness
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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Excellence Praise Verse Yourself
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
Life is not living, but living in health.
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Health Life Live One Liner
The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Doubt Ourselves Pleasure Present Taste
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
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Blessing Care Fortune Gratitude Observation Sadness Yourself
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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Content Preference Yourself
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself

Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

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