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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.

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I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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Love Myself
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
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
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Fools Future Past Wisdom
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Evil Fear Hide
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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Death Live Poet Praise Worth
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Borrow Himself Lose Preference
Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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Aware Fly Gift Himself Swallow
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself

However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.

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