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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.

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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
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
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
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People

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