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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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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
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
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
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
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try 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
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
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon

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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