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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
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
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly

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