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

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To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Bird Friendship Togetherness
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
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
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
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
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
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
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Blessing Care Fortune Gratitude Observation Sadness Yourself
A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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Cook Doubt Himself Master Taste
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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