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

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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
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Herself Laughter Yourself
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Children Growth One Liner
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
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

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

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