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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.

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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.
MARTIAL

Charm Prize Rare Suit
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
Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Laughter One Liner Wisdom
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Borrow Himself Lose Preference
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
MARTIAL

One Liner Wisdom
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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Excellence Praise Verse Yourself
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
Be merry if you are wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Envy Jealous Yourself

Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.

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