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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.

Moliere

unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King
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
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
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
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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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman

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