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A novice always behaves with propriety.

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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
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
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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Bury Death Profit Wife Yourself
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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Art Myself Yourself
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn
One genius has made many clever artists.
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Artist Genius Oneself
You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Absence Love Myself Togetherness Yourself
It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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Believe Day Man Myself Wisdom
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Elegant Hire Passion
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term

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