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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.

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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
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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Content Preference Yourself
Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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Friendship Master Service Yourself
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution
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
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
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
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
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
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine

Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.

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