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Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.

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Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Greatness Present Return
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
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
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
Gifts are like hooks.
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Gift One Liner
I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
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
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
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth

Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.

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