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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.

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Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
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
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
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
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
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
If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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Poor Rich Unfair Willing Yourself
I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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Love Myself
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Borrow Himself Lose Preference
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
Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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Eyes Love Man Proud Unfortunate
Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
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Cheer Enjoyment Fear Past Satisfaction Thankful

A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.

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