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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
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Herself Laughter Yourself
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price
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
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
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
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman

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