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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.

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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
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
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Heart Himself Man People Sincere Talk Word

Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.

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