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Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.

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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present

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