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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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Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Goodness Life Pleasure Sight
Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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Friendship Master Service Yourself
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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Goodness Man 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
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
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Charm Prize Rare Suit
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
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
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
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Honey Similar
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

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

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