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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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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Herself Woman
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue 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
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
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
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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Nectar Preserve Shine Shrine
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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Lake Luxury Myself Water
A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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Cook Doubt Himself Master Taste
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Friendship Short Writing 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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