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With a smile we should instruct our youth.

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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
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
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself

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