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Givers of great dinners know few enemies.

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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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Adversity Brave Easy Endurance Life True
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Day Ourselves Pass Score
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing 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
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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Form God Gold Himself
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Break Care Commitment Crystal Fear Hands Yourself
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself

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