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What will a child learn sooner than a song?

Alexander Pope

What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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Feeling Mistake See Wisdom
Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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Lose Love Play Relationship Women
Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Appearance Beautiful Hairs
He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Best Feeling Himself
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
This long disease, my life.
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Life One Liner Perspective Science
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Character Fame Goodness Life Positive
Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Cheating Devil Men One Liner Religious
The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Attitude Man Positive Success
He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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Force Greatness Himself Invention Lying Oneeslf
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
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
On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Funny Life Ocean Passion Reason
If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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God Greatness Kind Men Study Wisdom
A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Age Fools One Liner Patriot
All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Appearance Eyes Sick

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