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I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.

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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
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
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
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
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Easy Myself
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
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

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