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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Live Love Wasted
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
Music and dance are all you need.
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Dance Music Need
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
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
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
I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Easy Myself
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
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
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession

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