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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn
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
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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Bald Kiss Myself Nature Sin Yourself
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Division Short Work
When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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Attendant Crowd Elegant Loud Praise Yourself
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Ash Glory Late
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
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Elegant Hire Passion
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush

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