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Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.

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I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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Book Creation Goodness Literature Myself Poem Writing
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
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
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
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
Be merry if you are wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value

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