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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Charm Expression Fact Lying
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
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
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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Heart Integrity Virtue
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Blush Innocence One Liner
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Love Maturity Money Process Writing
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
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 husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

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