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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

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Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

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