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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
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
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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Heart Integrity Virtue
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Beautiful Feed Goodness Language

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

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