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Virtue is the first title of nobility.

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You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Peace Salvation Yourself
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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Charity Known Money Yourself
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
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
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous

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