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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

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It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Complete Concept Road
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
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
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
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
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
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
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

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