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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.

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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
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
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True

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