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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.

John Dryden

Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True
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
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
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Best Kind Ourselves Steal
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature
He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Thinking Unknown Whistle
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Life Man Origin Virtue Word
I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Fight Myself Rise Wound
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Fight King Mad Man Praise

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