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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live
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
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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Drugs Equality Life Live Philosophy Worth
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
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
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Heart Himself Man People Sincere Talk Word
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
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
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself

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