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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.

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Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
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
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself

One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.

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