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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
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
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
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste

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