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Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.

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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
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
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket

Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.

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Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.

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