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A snake lurks in the grass.
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The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully...
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the...
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Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it...
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Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority...
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A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a...
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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without...
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to...
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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend...
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It is better to obey the mysterious direction, without any fuss, when it points...