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Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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Excellence Praise Verse Yourself
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Evil Fear Hide
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
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
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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Greatness Myself Opinion Worth
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Fame Life Man Name Yourself
If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
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Biscuit Commitment Mistake Slave 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
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
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

Those they praise, but they read the others.

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