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

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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People

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