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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.

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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
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
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
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife

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