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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.

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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
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
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
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Live Love Wasted
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
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
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
Music and dance are all you need.
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Dance Music Need
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Charm Expression Fact Lying
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick

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