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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.

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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
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
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Action Responsibility Silence

Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.

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