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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Live Love Wasted
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
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
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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Medicine Money Trade Yourself
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

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