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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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Heart Integrity Virtue
Music and dance are all you need.
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Dance Music Need
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People

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