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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

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It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

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