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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.

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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Honest Live Man Passion Worth
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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Drugs Equality Life Live Philosophy Worth
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
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
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking

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