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I have the knack of easing scruples.

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At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Live Love Wasted
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
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
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk

I have the knack of easing scruples.

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