The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
MOLIERE
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Compromise
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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