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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise.
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An honest man is the noblest work of God.
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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.
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A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die; steal from the world, and not a stone tell where I lie.
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Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
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And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call;
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue,
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Such laboured' nothings in so strange a style
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
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Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night. God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light.
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Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.
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The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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