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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

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Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Honey Similar
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Bird Friendship Togetherness
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
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Death Fools Life Promise Yourself
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

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