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

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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Love Maturity Money Process Writing
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
Assassination’s the fastest way.
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Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
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
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
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True

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

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