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Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.

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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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Cook Doubt Himself Master Taste
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Absence Love Myself Togetherness 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
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Laughter One Liner Wisdom
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.
MARTIAL

Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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Love Myself
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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Excellence Praise Verse Yourself
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile

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