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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.

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Gifts are like hooks.
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Gift One Liner
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
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 no living with thee, nor without thee.
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God Live Religious
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
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
Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Greatness Present Return
You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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Children Heart Mindset Myself Purity Wife
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
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
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself

You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.

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