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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.

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The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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Ambition Greatness Heart Herself Love Woman
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand

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