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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
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
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
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home 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
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
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

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