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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

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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
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
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
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
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
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
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
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

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