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Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.

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Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
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
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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Ambition Greatness Heart Herself Love Woman
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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Medicine Money Trade Yourself
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Action Responsibility Silence
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin

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