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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
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
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
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

All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

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