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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
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Action Responsibility Silence
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
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
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
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
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Heart Himself Man People Sincere Talk Word
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Civilization Essence People Young
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
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
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves

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