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If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.

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I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Peace Salvation Yourself
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself

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