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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.

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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Heart Himself Man People Sincere Talk Word
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Blush Innocence One Liner
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
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
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
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
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
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
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King

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