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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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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
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
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Civilization Essence People Young
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow

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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