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Repartee is the soul of conversation.

John Dryden

The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Benefit Fate Pleasure Relate Sorrow Time
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Children Crave Growth Man
Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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Himself Judgement Praise Theme
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Block Government Time
So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Death Dreams Heaven Herself Life Success
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Creation Dew Greatness Himself Morning Spirit
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Beautiful Language Oneself
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Gift Modesty Proud Time
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Author Himself Poet Theft Victory

Repartee is the soul of conversation.

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