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We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Believe God Heaven
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
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
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time

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