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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange

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