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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.

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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Action Responsibility Silence
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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Heart Integrity Virtue
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
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself

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