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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Herself Laughter Yourself
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Love Maturity Money Process Writing
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
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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Heart Himself Man People Sincere Talk Word
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

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