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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
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
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
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
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
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
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
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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Medicine Money Trade Yourself
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction

Innocence is not accustomed to blush.

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