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New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.

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Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
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
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Herself Laughter Yourself

New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.

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