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Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

Moliere

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King
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 art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
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
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
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
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right

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