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Gifts are like hooks.

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The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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Expression Inscription Place Shame
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Day Ourselves Pass Score
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
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
Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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Aware Fly Gift Himself Swallow
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
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
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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God Live Religious
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
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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Book Himself Writing

Gifts are like hooks.

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