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Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.

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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
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
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
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
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman

Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.

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