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You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.

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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
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
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Envy Jealous Yourself
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn
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
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Doubt Ourselves Pleasure Present Taste
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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Believe Deserve Myself World
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
Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Bird Friendship Togetherness
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
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted

You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.

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You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.

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