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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.

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It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
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
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Better Greatness Place World
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
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
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong

Two wives? That exceeds the custom.

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