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Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.

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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
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
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself

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