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And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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Charity Known Money Yourself
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
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
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
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise

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