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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.

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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
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
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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Ambition Greatness Heart Herself Love Woman
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
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
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
Assassination’s the fastest way.
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Assassination Death Fast Murder Way

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