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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

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People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
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
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera

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