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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

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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
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
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
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Honest Live Man Passion Worth
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself

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