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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

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No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

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