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The envious will die, but envy never.

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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness

The envious will die, but envy never.

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