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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

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I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
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
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
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Biscuit Commitment Mistake Slave Yourself
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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Goodness Man Yourself
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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Death Fools Life Promise Yourself
Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Bird Friendship Togetherness
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
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
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please

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