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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.

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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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Adversity Brave Easy Endurance Life True
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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Goodness Man Yourself
Life is not living, but living in health.
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Health Life Live One Liner
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 swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Borrow Himself Lose Preference
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Fame Life Man Name Yourself
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself

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