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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
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
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
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
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
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
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Better Greatness Place World
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People

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