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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.

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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Civilization Essence People Young
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World

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