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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 wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
MARTIAL

Leadership Myself Wife
Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
MARTIAL

Friendship Master Service Yourself
Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
MARTIAL

Eyes Love Man Proud Unfortunate
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
MARTIAL

Leather Remember Yourself
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
MARTIAL

Original Position Yourself
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
MARTIAL

Ash Glory Late
Spare the person but lash the vice.
MARTIAL

One Liner Person Vice
Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
MARTIAL

Alive Health Life
Wine and women bring misery.
MARTIAL

Alcohol Misery Wine
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
MARTIAL

Day Fear Yourself
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
MARTIAL

Death Live Poet Praise Worth
A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
MARTIAL

Cook Doubt Himself Master Taste
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
MARTIAL

Friendship Short Writing Yourself
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
MARTIAL

Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
MARTIAL

Fly Joy Life Live
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
MARTIAL

Herself Woman

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

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