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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
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
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
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
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
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
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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Charity Known Money Yourself
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Honest Live Man Passion Worth
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

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