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He's of stature somewhat low-- Your hero always should be tall, you know.

A joke's a very serious thing.

Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.

The more laws, the less justice.

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.

Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.

View the whole scene, with critic judgment scan, And then deny him merit if you can. Where he falls short, 'tis Nature's fault alone Where he succeeds, the merit's all his own.

Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.

Not without art, but yet to Nature true.

To vanish nonsense with the charms of sound.

The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.

He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.

Patience is sorrow's salve.

Who, to patch up his fame--or fill his purse-- Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own.

Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.

The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.

And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.

Why should we fear; and what? The laws? They all are armed in virtue's cause; And aiming at the self-same end, Satire is always virtue's friend.