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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.

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Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
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
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
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
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
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
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst

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