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It is a long road from conception to completion.

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Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
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
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
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
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity

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