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Things are only worth what you make them worth.

Moliere

The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
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
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
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
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship

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