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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
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
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
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
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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Heart Integrity Virtue
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Live Love Wasted
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known

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