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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

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People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road
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
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
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
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
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
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Civilization Essence People Young
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick

The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

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