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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

John Dryden

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
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Fake Happiness Thinking Trust
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
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Best Give Up Knowledge Nature Production True
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
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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Day Eyes Round Shade Sight Soul
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Death Finding Love Time Way

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