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The face that cannot smile is never fair.

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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
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
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
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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Lake Luxury Myself Water
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
Be merry if you are wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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Doubt Existence Goodness Live Man
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted

The face that cannot smile is never fair.

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