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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.

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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
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
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Blush Innocence One Liner
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Action Responsibility Silence
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
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
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World

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