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The envious will die, but envy never.

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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
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
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
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
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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Heart Integrity Virtue
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
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
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing

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