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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
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
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
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Charm Expression Fact Lying
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
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
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue

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