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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.

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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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Friendship Man Myself Truth
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
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
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
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
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Action Responsibility Silence
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery

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