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Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.

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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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Lake Luxury Myself Water
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
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
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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Bury Death Profit Wife Yourself
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
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 Appearance Cruelty Yourself
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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Adversity Brave Himself Life True
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

Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.

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