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Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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Art Myself Yourself
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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Death Live Poet Praise Worth
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Goodness Life Pleasure Sight
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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Form God Gold Himself
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
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Bald Kiss Myself Nature Sin Yourself
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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Children Heart Mindset Myself Purity Wife
See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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Amazing Animal Food Growth Possible Yourself
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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Doubt Existence Goodness Live Man
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Ash Glory Late
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice

Laugh, if thou art wise.

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