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

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You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Friendship Short Writing Yourself
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Greatness Present Return
You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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Admire Death Old Pay Poet Praise Price Thinking Yourself
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
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
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
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Inspirational Life Live

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