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

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The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Flaw Greatness Hide
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Envy Jealous Yourself
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
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Arms Exercise Man Strong Worthy
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
Be merry if you are wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
One genius has made many clever artists.
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Artist Genius Oneself
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Health Mistake Thinking
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Day Ourselves Pass Score
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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Greatness Myself Opinion Worth
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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Book Himself Writing
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner

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

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