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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!

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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight
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
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
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

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