A fool and his words are soon parted.

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The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.

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Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

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Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

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What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.

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Every good poet includes a critic; the reverse will not hold.

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Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.

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Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

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A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind.

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His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.

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