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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
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
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
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

People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

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