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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
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
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
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
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 have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence

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