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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.

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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
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
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Love Maturity Money Process Writing
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

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