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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.

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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
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 prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction

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