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I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”

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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase
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
Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Fascination One Liner Point
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Fools Future Past Wisdom
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
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
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
Gifts are like hooks.
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Gift One Liner
Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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Day Life Present
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
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
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
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
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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Nectar Preserve Shine Shrine
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn

I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”

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I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”

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