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No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.
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Whence thy learning? Hath thy toilO'er books consumed the midnight oil?
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Where yet was ever found a motherWho'd give her booby for another?
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When we risk no contradiction,It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction.
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In beauty faults conspicuous grow;The smallest speck is seen on snow.
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In every age and clime we seeTwo of a trade can never agree.
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Those who in quarrels inteposeMust often wipe a bloody nose.
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Envy is a kind of praise.
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And when a lady's in the case,You know all other things give place.
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From wine what sudden friendship springs!
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By outward show let's not be cheated;An ass should like an ass be treated.
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O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, By keeping men off, you keep them on.
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I must have women--there is nothing unbends the mind like them.
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Youth's the season made for joys, Love is then our duty.
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Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!
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How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away!
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If love be not his Guide, He never will come back!
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Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.
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