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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.

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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Better Greatness Place World
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
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
To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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Ambition Greatness Heart Herself Love Woman
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
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
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself

That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.

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