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

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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
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
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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God Live Religious
Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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Believe Deserve Myself World
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
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
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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Book Creation Goodness Literature Myself Poem Writing
Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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Friendship Master Service Yourself
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Bird Friendship Togetherness

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