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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!

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All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
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
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Civilization Essence People Young
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
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
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
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself

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