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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.

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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile
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
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
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Agreement Food Movie Prevent Proud
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Bird Friendship Togetherness
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Fools Future Past Wisdom
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
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
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
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
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Flaw Greatness Hide
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
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself

While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.

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