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You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.

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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
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
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret

You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.

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