'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
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Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, Tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.
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O, she is the antidote to desire.
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Where modesty's ill manners, 'tis but fitThat impudence and malice pass for wit.
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Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
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It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
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