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I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Civilization Essence People Young
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism

I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

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