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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.

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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
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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Friendship Man Myself Truth
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.

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