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One genius has made many clever artists.

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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
Gifts are like hooks.
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Gift One Liner
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Day Ourselves Pass Score
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Flaw Greatness Hide
Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
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Cheer Enjoyment Fear Past Satisfaction Thankful
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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Attendant Crowd Elegant Loud Praise Yourself
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Borrow Himself Lose Preference
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Laughter One Liner Wisdom
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves

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