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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
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
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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Friendship Man Myself Truth
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
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
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Civilization Essence People Young
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong

All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

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