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The smallest errors are always the best.

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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
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Complete Concept Road
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
Assassination’s the fastest way.
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Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage

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