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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.

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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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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
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
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
Music and dance are all you need.
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Dance Music Need
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk

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