"It is a long road from conception to completion."
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"And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation."
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"One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it."
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"Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!"
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"As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt."
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"The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?"
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"Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined"
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"It's an odd job, making decent people laugh."
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"It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world."
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"Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection."
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"Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same."
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"Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful."
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"Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?"
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"What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man."
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"The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all."
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"I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others."
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"Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases."
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"I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married."
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"Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty."
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"Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason."
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