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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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Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Division Short Work
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution
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
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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Goodness Man Yourself
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
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
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Day Ourselves Pass Score
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
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
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
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
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame 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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