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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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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
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 most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
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
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous

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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