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It takes all sorts to make a world.
It takes all sorts to make a world.
 Diversity, that is my motto.
 [Fr., Diversite, c'est ma devise.]  
 Diversity, that is my motto.
 [Fr., Diversite, c'est ma devise.] 
Amidst the soft variety I'm lost.
Amidst the soft variety I'm lost.
 Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways.
 [Lat., Mille animos excipe mille modis.]  
 Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways.
 [Lat., Mille animos excipe mille modis.] 
Variety is the soul of pleasure.
Variety is the soul of pleasure.
 Countless the various species of mankind,
 Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind;
  No general object read more 
 Countless the various species of mankind,
 Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind;
  No general object of desire is known,
   Each has his will, and each pursues his own. 
 He decried that any would
add another hue 
unto the rainbow
yet we would ope to
saffron and jade
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 He decried that any would
add another hue 
unto the rainbow
yet we would ope to
saffron and jade
and pink and rose
and olive and tan
scarlet and indigos
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*the quote is from Shakespeare's King John. 
 For variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity 
of something.
 [Ger., Weil Verschiedenheit des Nichts mehr read more 
 For variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity 
of something.
 [Ger., Weil Verschiedenheit des Nichts mehr ergotzt, als 
Einerleiheit des Etwas.] 
 When our old Pleasures die,
 Some new One still is nigh;
  Oh! fair Variety!  
 When our old Pleasures die,
 Some new One still is nigh;
  Oh! fair Variety!