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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.

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Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Honey Similar
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
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
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile
Life is not living, but living in health.
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Health Life Live One Liner
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Fools Future Past Wisdom
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
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Arms Exercise Man Strong Worthy
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
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Fame Life Man Name Yourself
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
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
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
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

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