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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

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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
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness

All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

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