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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.

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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
Assassination’s the fastest way.
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Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time

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