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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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Friendship Man Myself Truth
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People

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