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We are easily duped by those we love.

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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
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
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
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
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking

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