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I have not hated the man, but his faults.

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If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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Addiction Appearance Cruelty Yourself
I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Evil Fear Hide
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
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
Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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Bury Death Profit Wife Yourself
Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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Believe Deserve Myself World
You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Absence Love Myself Togetherness Yourself
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself

I have not hated the man, but his faults.

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