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We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!

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At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
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
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue

We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!

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We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!

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