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I recover my property wherever I find it.

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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Blush Innocence One Liner
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
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
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Complete Concept Road
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman

I recover my property wherever I find it.

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