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Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?

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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear Yourself
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Ash Glory Late
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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Book Myself Present Reading Yourself
The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Doubt Ourselves Pleasure Present Taste
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Evil Fear Hide
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
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
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice

Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?

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