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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.

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Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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Heart Integrity Virtue
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety

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