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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
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
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
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
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
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
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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Drugs Equality Life Live Philosophy Worth
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
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
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
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
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Peace Salvation Yourself
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage

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