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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick

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