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The envious will die, but envy never.

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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Love Maturity Money Process Writing
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Herself Laughter Yourself
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right

The envious will die, but envy never.

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