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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

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Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
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 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
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness

The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

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