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Innocence is not accustomed to blush.

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To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
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
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Charm Expression Fact Lying
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word

Innocence is not accustomed to blush.

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