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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.

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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
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
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
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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