Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.

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Let this grisly beginning be none other to you than is to wayfarers a rugged and steep mountain.

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While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

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it is obvious that all vices have a grievous effect on those who indulge them and often on others too. But I believe that the one which can transport us with the most unbridled haste into danger is anger. This is nothing other than a sudden thoughtless impulse, provoked by some perceived offence, which banishes reason and clouds the eyes of the mind, rousing the soul to blazing fury.

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Wrongs committed in the distant past are far easier to condemn than to rectify.

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La giovane, che non era di ferro né di diamante, assai agevolmente si piegò ai piaceri dello abate.

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No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.

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In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.

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Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

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here be said save that even in poor cottages there rain down divine spirits from heaven, like as in princely palaces there be those who were worthier to tend swine than to have lordship over men.

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