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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
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
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Herself Laughter Yourself
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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Ambition Greatness Heart Herself Love Woman

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

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