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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
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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Greatness Myself Opinion Worth
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
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
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Fascination One Liner Point
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
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
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Envy Jealous Yourself

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