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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.

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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Easy Myself
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
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Herself Laughter Yourself
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Believe God Heaven
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
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
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World

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