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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.

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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
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
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice

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