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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or…
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to…
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross,…
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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to…
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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet to run amok and tilt at all I meet.
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There is no dunce like a mature dunce.
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The flat-brimmed cap is the modern day dunce cap.
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Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish…
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For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.
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Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
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