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No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.

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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
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
Assassination’s the fastest way.
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Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Charm Expression Fact Lying
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love

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