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To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.

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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
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue

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