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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

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Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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Friendship Man Myself Truth
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
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
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
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
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

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