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There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.

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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing
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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Action Responsibility Silence
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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Medicine Money Trade Yourself
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
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
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking

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