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Things are only worth what you make them worth.

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Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Complete Concept Road
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction

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