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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

Moliere

Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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Medicine Money Trade Yourself
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
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
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People

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