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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.

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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
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Goodness Life Pleasure Sight
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear Yourself
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
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
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
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
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
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
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
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Charm Prize Rare Suit
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake

The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.

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