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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.

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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
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
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue

Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.

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