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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
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
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
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
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
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
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
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite

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