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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.

John Dryden

For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Goodness Myself Talk Truth
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Action Essence Fiction Human Poetry Story
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Judgement People Thinking Understand Wrong
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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Authority Better General Man Opinion Understand
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Fly Joy Youth

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