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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?

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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
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
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Day Ourselves Pass Score
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
To have nothing is not poverty.
MARTIAL

One Liner Poverty
When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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Attendant Crowd Elegant Loud Praise Yourself
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Laughter One Liner Wisdom
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Division Short Work
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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Book Myself Present Reading Yourself
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
MARTIAL

Death Live Poet Praise Worth
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden

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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