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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?

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To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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Ambition Greatness Heart Herself Love Woman
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge 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
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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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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