Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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