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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

Moliere

The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King
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
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time

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