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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.

John Dryden

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Estate Himself Misery Money Sell Soul
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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God Goodness Love Thinking World
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Age Empty Experience Known Start World
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Discover Future Glide Haste Length Past
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth

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