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All heiresses are beautiful.

John Dryden

A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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Character Kind Man Natural Painting Person Poetry
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
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Gift Heaven Liberty Life Love
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
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
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Excitement Loud
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Anger Cherish Disappear Forget
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
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Himself Master Secret Servant Trust

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