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Malicious men may die, but malice never.

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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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Heart Integrity Virtue
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Live Love Wasted
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience

Malicious men may die, but malice never.

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