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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.

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A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
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
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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Children Heart Mindset Myself Purity Wife
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
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
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
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
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
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Charm Prize Rare Suit
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself

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