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Gifts are like hooks.
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Gift One Liner
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution
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
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Day Ourselves Pass Score
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
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
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
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
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
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair

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