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The smallest errors are always the best.

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In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover
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
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason

The smallest errors are always the best.

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