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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.

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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden
Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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Day Life Present
The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Doubt Ourselves Pleasure Present Taste
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
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
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Death Fools Life Promise Yourself
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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Fate Friendship Secure Wealth Yourself
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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Content Preference Yourself

My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.

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