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Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.

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Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
MOLIERE

Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
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
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Peace Salvation Yourself

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