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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.

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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
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
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
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
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Love Maturity Money Process Writing
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching

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