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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
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Honest Live Man Passion Worth
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself

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