Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others
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