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People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.

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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
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
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Herself Laughter Yourself
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
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
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
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small

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