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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.

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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
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
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
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
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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Ambition Greatness Heart Herself Love Woman
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Children Growth One Liner
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food

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