But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate, Tenrich a bastard, or a son they hate.

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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: walk sober off; before a sprightlier age comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage: leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please.

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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.

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