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

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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
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
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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Friendship Master Service Yourself
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
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
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Herself Woman
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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God Live Religious
While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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Ant Death Life Precious Shade Value
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
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural

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

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