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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Better Greatness Place World
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Honest Live Man Passion Worth
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
Assassination’s the fastest way.
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Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth

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