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In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.

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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
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
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
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
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Live Love Wasted
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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Friendship Man Myself Truth
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
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
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking

In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.

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In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.

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