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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.

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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
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
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Charm Expression Fact Lying
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
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
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word

I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.

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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.

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