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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.

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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Believe God Heaven
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Children Growth One Liner
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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Drugs Equality Life Live Philosophy Worth
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion

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