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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.

Alexander Pope

A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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Dangerous Education Learning Money Wisdom
True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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Expression Nature True
Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Nature Strange Thinking Vice
Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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Enemy Friendship Judgement Work Yourself
When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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Comfortable Employment Growth Live Old Young
Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Flower Needs One Liner Truth
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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Endurance Face Hate Need See Vice
As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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Advice Deep Wisdom
Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Appearance Beautiful Hairs
Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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Fortune Herself Honesty Independence Lose Worst
To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Attitude Brave Character Deep One Liner Polite Wisdom
The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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God People Voice
What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Children Education Learning One Liner Song
A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Age One Liner Youth
This long disease, my life.
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Life One Liner Perspective Science
What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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Character Failure Goodness Humor Power Trust

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