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To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.

Moliere

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
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
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
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
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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Drugs Equality Life Live Philosophy Worth
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World

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