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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
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
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
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
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret

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