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You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

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The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear Yourself
I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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Boredom Face Love Missing Myself Togetherness
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
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
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Herself Woman
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
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Evil Fear Hide
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
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
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
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

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