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

Moliere

There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Charm Expression Fact Lying
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
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
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
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
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself

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