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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.

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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
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
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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Adversity Death Easy Live Reality
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Alive Health Life
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Honey Similar
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
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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Believe Day Man Myself Wisdom
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Break Care Commitment Crystal Fear Hands Yourself
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself

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