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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.

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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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Charity Known Money Yourself
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
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
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous

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