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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
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
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
Assassination’s the fastest way.
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Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
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
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
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
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman

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