If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil.
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Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.
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Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side.
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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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