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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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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
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
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Live Love Wasted

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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