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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

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No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
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
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Peace Salvation Yourself
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World

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