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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
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
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
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
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics

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