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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.

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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous

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