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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
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
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
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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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Easy Myself
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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Medicine Money Trade Yourself
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
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
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket

The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

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