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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
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
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

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