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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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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
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
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
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
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
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

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

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