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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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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Book Himself Writing
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Inspirational Life Live
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Friendship Short Writing Yourself
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Goodness Life Pleasure Sight
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
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
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Fascination One Liner Point
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Flaw Greatness Hide

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

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