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Merit challenges envy.

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Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Gift Modesty Proud Time
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Age Genius Kind Live Study Universe
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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Cheat Day False Fools Life
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Brown Easy Light Night
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
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter

Merit challenges envy.

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