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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

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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
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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Ambition Greatness Heart Herself Love Woman
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Blush Innocence One Liner
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Peace Salvation Yourself
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure

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