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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
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
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
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Civilization Essence People Young
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Complete Concept Road
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
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue

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