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Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.

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  1. Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblem right meet of decency does yield.
  2. Whoe'er has traveled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome, at an …
  3. Every good poet includes a critic; the reverse will not hold.
  4. A fool and his words are soon parted.
  5. Love is a pleasing but a various clime.
  6. So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.
  7. I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed.
  8. My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.

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