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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Michel de Montaigne

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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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Dangerous Discreetly Know Possessor Use Weapon
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Greater Miracle Monster Myself never Seen World
The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Another Confidence Confident Evidence Favor God Man Own Such Virtue Willing
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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Alphabet Begin Both Corrupt Covetousness Die Last Nature Vice
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Acquit All Death Obligation Say
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Metaphysic Myself Other Physic Study Subject
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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More Some Defeat Triumphant Victory
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Head Ignorance Man Pillow Rest Soften
The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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Avoid Both Condition Dare Nase Seem Them Ugly Worstm Action
How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Condemnation Crime Criminal More Than Witness
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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Content Contractor Mind Sign Weariness
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Perpetual Saw See World
If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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Adequately Die Fully How Know Nature Spot Tell To What Worry
The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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Blunder Book Curriculum Page Prank Servant Table Talk
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Argument Command Establish Noise Reason Show Weak

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