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Spare the person but lash the vice.

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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
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
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
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
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
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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Fate Friendship Secure Wealth Yourself
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Fame Life Man Name Yourself

Spare the person but lash the vice.

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