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Who but knows How it goes! Life's a last year's Nightingale, Love's a last year's rose.

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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

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He that loves a book will never want a [close] friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes.

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We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.

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Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.

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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

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