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I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
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
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
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
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
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men

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