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Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.

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In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
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
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Charm Expression Fact Lying
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue

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