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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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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
Assassination’s the fastest way.
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Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Honest Live Man Passion Worth
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Peace Salvation Yourself
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue

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