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Evil tongues never want a whet.

Alain-Rene Lesage

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Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.
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Courage Extraordinary Rashness Take Will
Plain as a pike-staff.
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Like Plain Staff
It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.
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Expense May Memory Said Wit Shine
Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head.
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Come Enthusiasm Freee Give Head Just Natural Reign Say Whatever
I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances.
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Circumstance Lodged Master Own Perfect Quite
A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.
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Everything Flatter Great Personage Rish
I am contented with my situation, and happy because I think myself so.
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Content Happiness Myself Situation Think
On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire (One may say that his wit shines by the help of his memory).
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Help May Memory One Peut Say Shine
Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.
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Conceit Original Pride Sin Man
Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist?
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Brillant Conversation Like
Evil tongues never want a whet.
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Evil never Tongue Want What
Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.
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Bank Content His Lake Memory Must Mutual River
Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.
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Cannot Dear Fine Justice Pay Such Thing
Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.
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Doubt Knowledge
The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.
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Body Drink Example Refuse Soul Strike Thirsty Trimble
The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.
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Act Breath Coeval Inextinguishable Passion Pleasure Talk Woman
Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil’s back is spent under his belly.
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Belly Country Elegant Expression Isocitrate Right Spent Under

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