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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

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You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear Yourself
The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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Expression Inscription Place Shame
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Division Short Work
If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
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Biscuit Commitment Mistake Slave Yourself
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
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
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
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Charm Prize Rare Suit
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
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

If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

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