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

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Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
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
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
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
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
Music and dance are all you need.
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Dance Music Need
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice

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