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

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The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience

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