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Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!

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I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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Lake Luxury Myself Water
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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Death Live Poet Praise Worth
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
If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
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Biscuit Commitment Mistake Slave Yourself
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place 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
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
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
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.
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Deserve Leaving Money Perfume Price Wine Yourself
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner

Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!

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