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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.

Moliere

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
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
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
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
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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Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing

Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.

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