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You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.

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In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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Adversity Brave Himself Life True
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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Anxiety Mouth Remember Right Yourself
One genius has made many clever artists.
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Artist Genius Oneself
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
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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Adversity Death Easy Live Reality
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
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
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Break Care Commitment Crystal Fear Hands Yourself
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction

You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.

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You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.

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