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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
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
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
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
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Complete Concept Road

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