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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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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
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
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
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
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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Friendship Man Myself Truth
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
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
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
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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Medicine Money Trade Yourself
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick

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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