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I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.

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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
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution
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
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Borrow Himself Lose Preference
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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Death Live Poet Praise Worth
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
Gifts are like hooks.
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Gift One Liner
You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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Admire Death Old Pay Poet Praise Price Thinking Yourself
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself

I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.

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