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The envious will die, but envy never.

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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Blush Innocence One Liner
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Live Love Wasted
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
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
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Complete Concept Road
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick

The envious will die, but envy never.

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