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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

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There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
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
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

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