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You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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Children Heart Mindset Myself Purity Wife
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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Adversity Death Easy Live Reality
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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Book Himself Writing
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
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear Yourself
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
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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Adversity Brave Himself Life True
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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Believe Day Man Myself Wisdom

I know all that better than my own name.

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