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All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe

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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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Affair Charm Gold Misery
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Charm Expression Fact Lying
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
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
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity

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