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You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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Death Live Poet Praise Worth
Be merry if you are wise.
MARTIAL

One Liner Wisdom
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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Adversity Brave Himself Life True
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear Yourself
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Goodness Life Pleasure Sight
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
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
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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Addiction Appearance Cruelty Yourself
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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Nectar Preserve Shine Shrine

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