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Spare the person but lash the vice.

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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Bird Friendship Togetherness
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Goodness Life Pleasure Sight
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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Amazing Animal Food Growth Possible Yourself
You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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Book Myself Present Reading Yourself
The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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Expression Inscription Place Shame
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
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
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please

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