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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.

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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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Charity Known Money Yourself
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
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
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Blush Innocence One Liner
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
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
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue

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