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See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?

Martial

Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
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Agreement Food Movie Prevent Proud
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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Amazing Animal Food Growth Possible Yourself
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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Book Himself Writing
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
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
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
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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Death Live Poet Praise Worth

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