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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.

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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
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Charm Expression Fact Lying
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
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
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
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
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word

The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.

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