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A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.

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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
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
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Health Mistake Thinking
Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Laughter One Liner Wisdom
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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Greatness Myself Opinion Worth
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Division Short Work
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Absence Love Myself Togetherness Yourself
Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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Bury Death Profit Wife Yourself
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase

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