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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.

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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
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
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Peace Salvation Yourself
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
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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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend

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