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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?

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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People

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