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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Honest Live Man Passion Worth
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
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
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
Assassination’s the fastest way.
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Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst

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