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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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Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Bird Friendship Togetherness
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
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Health Mistake Thinking
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
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Flaw Greatness Hide
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
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
Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Fascination One Liner Point
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
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
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
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
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Envy Jealous Yourself
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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One Liner Wisdom

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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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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