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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

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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
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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Adversity Death Easy Live Reality
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
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
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
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
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Health Mistake Thinking
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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Cheer Enjoyment Fear Past Satisfaction Thankful
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
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
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

Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

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