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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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There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Charm Expression Fact Lying
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Believe God Heaven
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
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
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
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
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
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live

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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