Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals.

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Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

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Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.

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The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable.

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If women were humbler, men would be more honest.

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Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world (The Relapse).

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You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so.

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