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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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There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Complete Concept Road
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret

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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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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