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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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Medicine Money Trade Yourself
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
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
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word

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