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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
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
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Better Greatness Place World

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