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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

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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
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Action Responsibility Silence
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
Assassination’s the fastest way.
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Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself

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