Quote #38

'Tis hard if all is false that I advance, A fool must now and then be right by chance.

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  1. No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest, Till half mankind were like himself possess'd.
  2. He would not, with a peremptory tone, Assert the nose upon his face his own.
  3. How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home!
  4. A moral, sensible, and well-bred man Will not affront me, and no other can.
  5. Remorse, the fatal egg by Pleasure laid.
  6. Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys, Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose pre…
  7. Lights of the world, and stars of human race.
  8. I cannot talk with civet in the room, A fine puss-gentleman that's all perfume.

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