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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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Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Greatness Present Return
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
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
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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Adversity Death Easy Live Reality
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
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
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
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Fools Future Past Wisdom
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
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Charm Prize Rare Suit

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