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Malicious men may die, but malice never.

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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
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
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
Music and dance are all you need.
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Dance Music Need
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself

Malicious men may die, but malice never.

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