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For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

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An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.

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And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.

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What will a child learn sooner than a song?

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How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd

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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

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An honest man is the noblest work of God.

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I have died so little today, friend, forgive me.

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

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In words as fashions the same rule will hold,Alike fantastic if too new or oldBe not the first by whome the new are tried,Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head. Intelligence

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But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate, Tenrich a bastard, or a son they hate.

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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,The proper study of Mankind is Man.

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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

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Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

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