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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

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I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Love Maturity Money Process Writing
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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Charity Known Money Yourself

The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

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