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To live without loving is not really to live.

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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Easy Myself
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
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
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
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual

To live without loving is not really to live.

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