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There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!

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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
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
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 only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
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
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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Drugs Equality Life Live Philosophy Worth
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
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
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal

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