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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Civilization Essence People Young
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
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
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
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
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Easy Myself
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

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