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When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.

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Gifts are like hooks.
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Gift One Liner
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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Goodness Man Yourself
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Borrow Himself Lose Preference
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
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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Content Preference Yourself
Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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Friendship Master Service Yourself
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
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
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Ash Glory Late
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
Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
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Accomplishment High Life Possession Short Value Yourself
A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.
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Deserve Leaving Money Perfume Price Wine Yourself
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn

When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.

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When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.

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