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We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Heart Himself Man People Sincere Talk Word
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
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
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison

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