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There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.

Martial

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
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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Goodness Man Yourself
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Herself Woman
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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Adversity Brave Himself Life True
Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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Fate Friendship Secure Wealth Yourself
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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Book Himself Writing
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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Addiction Appearance Cruelty Yourself

There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.

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