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Politicians neither love nor hate.

John Dryden

Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Himself Master Secret Servant Trust
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength
If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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Honor Judgement Man Member Mistake Order
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Fury Man Patience
So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
JOHN DRYDEN

Death Dreams Heaven Herself Life Success
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
JOHN DRYDEN

King Mad Moments Nation
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
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Cheap Death Fame
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Himself Loss See Vice
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife

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