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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.

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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
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
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
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
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Complete Concept Road
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
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
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

The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.

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