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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.

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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame 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
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
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
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
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
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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Adversity Brave Himself Life True
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden
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
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 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
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Goodness Life Pleasure Sight
Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Alive Health Life

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