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If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.

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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Honey Similar
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
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
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
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
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
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Doubt Ourselves Pleasure Present Taste
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Day Ourselves Pass Score
Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
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Bald Kiss Myself Nature Sin Yourself
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
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
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue

If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.

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