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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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Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Laughter One Liner Wisdom
When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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Attendant Crowd Elegant Loud Praise Yourself
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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Admire Death Old Pay Poet Praise Price Thinking Yourself
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
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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Nectar Preserve Shine Shrine
I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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Lake Luxury Myself Water
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Health Mistake Thinking
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
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Arms Exercise Man Strong Worthy
Life is not living, but living in health.
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Health Life Live One Liner
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man

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