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Gifts are like hooks.

Martial

You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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Children Heart Mindset Myself Purity Wife
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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Content Preference Yourself
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Fame Life Man Name Yourself
Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Alive Health Life
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
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
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
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Agreement Food Movie Prevent Proud
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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Adversity Brave Easy Endurance Life True
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief 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

Gifts are like hooks.

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