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

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Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Greatness Present Return
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
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 merry if you are wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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Expression Inscription Place Shame
Life is not living, but living in health.
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Health Life Live One Liner
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
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
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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Book Creation Goodness Literature Myself Poem Writing
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
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
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Fools Future Past Wisdom
Gifts are like hooks.
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Gift One Liner
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value

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

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