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When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.

John Dryden

War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Errors Flow Gratitude Surface
There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Advantage Modesty Proud
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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Character Kind Man Natural Painting Person Poetry
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Fury Man Patience
To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Common Death Devil Evil
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Live Past Remember Thankful

When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.

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When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.

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