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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.

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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
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
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
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
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere

In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.

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