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And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.

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The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
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
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
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
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People

And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.

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