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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.

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To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
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
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Live Love Wasted
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right

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