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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
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
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE

Death Jealous Willing
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
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
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself

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