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New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.

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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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Friendship Man Myself Truth
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
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
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word

New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.

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