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Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.

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Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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Book Creation Goodness Literature Myself Poem Writing
I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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Boredom Face Love Missing Myself Togetherness
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Envy Jealous Yourself
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution
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
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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Adversity Death Easy Live Reality
If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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Anxiety Mouth Remember Right Yourself
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Herself Woman
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself

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