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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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Evil Goodness Need
Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.
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Gold Substance Understand Value
It’s wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else’s enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
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Act Enjoyment Humanity Oneself Pleasure Wrong
The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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Better Master Servant
A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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Herself Love Man Willing Woman
An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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Ideas Man Oneself Rare
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Age Leave Love Rose Wine Youth
Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody’s under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.
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Death Horrible Punishment Thief
Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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Love Myself
And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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Follow Light Literature Nature Planet
It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
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Himself Love Man Natural Thinking
No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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Cole Togetherness
There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
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Moon Planet Religion Several Worship
It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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Best Invention Man Natural
Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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Marriage Reason Rhyme
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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Character Enough Face Himself Hold Man

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

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