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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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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
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love

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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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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