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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

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No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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Medicine Money Trade Yourself
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

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