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

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I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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Friendship Man Myself Truth
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
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
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth

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