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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Fruit Sweet Taken
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Affected Eloquence Foolish
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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June Life Perfect Summer
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Act Apes Courage Eye Mirror Time
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Exercise Men Writing
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art Giving Lying
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking

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