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Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.

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I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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Day Life Present
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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Children Heart Mindset Myself Purity Wife
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Laughter One Liner Wisdom
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
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
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden
Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Greatness Present Return
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
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake

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