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I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.

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We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
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
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
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
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
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man

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