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Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.

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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
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
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
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
Be merry if you are wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
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
Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Bird Friendship Togetherness
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear Yourself
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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Adversity Brave Easy Endurance Life True
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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Art Myself Yourself
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction

Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.

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Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.

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