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Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.

Martial

Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
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Charm Prize Rare Suit
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
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
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear Yourself
The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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Expression Inscription Place Shame
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
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
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
Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Alive Health Life
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden
Gifts are like hooks.
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Gift One Liner
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term

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