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You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.

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Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Greatness Present Return
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
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 good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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Anxiety Mouth Remember Right Yourself
A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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Cook Doubt Himself Master Taste
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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Excellence Praise Verse Yourself
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Friendship Short Writing Yourself
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
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
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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Doubt Existence Goodness Live Man
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Envy Jealous Yourself
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself

You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.

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You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.

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