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If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
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Biscuit Commitment Mistake Slave Yourself
I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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Love Myself
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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Addiction Appearance Cruelty Yourself
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Elegant Hire Passion
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
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
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
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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Content Preference Yourself
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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Cook Doubt Himself Master Taste
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
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
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man

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