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Books and marriage go ill together.

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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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Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Civilization Essence People Young
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Honest Live Man Passion Worth
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself

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