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You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.

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Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
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Accomplishment High Life Possession Short Value Yourself
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
You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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Book Myself Present Reading Yourself
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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Form God Gold Himself
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
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Death Fools Life Promise Yourself
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear Yourself
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself

You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.

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