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I have the knack of easing scruples.

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There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Love Maturity Money Process Writing
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
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
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
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
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Civilization Essence People Young
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Better Greatness Place World
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True

I have the knack of easing scruples.

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