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Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.

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Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
Assassination’s the fastest way.
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Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
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
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
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
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery

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