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People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.

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There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
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
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Peace Salvation Yourself
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
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

People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.

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