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I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.

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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
One genius has made many clever artists.
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Artist Genius Oneself
Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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Aware Fly Gift Himself Swallow
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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Expression Inscription Place Shame
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Division Short Work
Life is not living, but living in health.
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Health Life Live One Liner
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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Book Creation Goodness Literature Myself Poem Writing
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
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Ash Glory Late
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Health Mistake Thinking
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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Adversity Brave Easy Endurance Life True
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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Anxiety Mouth Remember Right Yourself

I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.

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