No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
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
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself

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