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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.

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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
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
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
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
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
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Love Maturity Money Process Writing
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

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