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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.

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To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste

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