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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.

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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Laughter One Liner Wisdom
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Envy Jealous Yourself
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Fame Life Man Name Yourself
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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Friendship Master Service Yourself
It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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Believe Day Man Myself Wisdom
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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Book Creation Goodness Literature Myself Poem Writing
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn
I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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Love Myself

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