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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.

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Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Action Responsibility Silence
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People

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