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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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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
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
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE

Finding Heaven Pleasure True
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
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
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
Assassination’s the fastest way.
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Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
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 art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself

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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