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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

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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
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
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
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success

It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

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