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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

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