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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.

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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
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
I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Easy Myself
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
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
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason

Birth is nothing where virtue is not.

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