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One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
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
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
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
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People

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