He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.

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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.

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Bagwalas

You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.

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You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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Verse
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.

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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant
Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.

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Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
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Bald
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.

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I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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Addiction Cruelty
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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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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Preference
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.

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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]

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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Elegant Hire
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Wings
Birds of a feather will flock together.
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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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Boredom
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.

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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.

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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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Cook Doubt
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.

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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.

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There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.

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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs
I know all that better than my own name.

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I know all that better than my own name.
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