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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.

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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
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
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way

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