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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.

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We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Live Love Wasted
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Civilization Essence People Young
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
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 great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret

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