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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
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
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
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
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
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice

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