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I wont let a wife lead me to the altar. [I will not have a wife that shall be my master.]
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I'm what I seem not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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He writes nothing whose writings are not read.
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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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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You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
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Be not too thick with anybody your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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To-morrow I will live, the fool does say To-day itself's too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours. [Lat., Extra fortunam est, quidquid donatur amicis Quas dederis, selas semper habebis opes.]
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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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