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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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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Children Growth One Liner
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Believe God Heaven
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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Heart Integrity Virtue
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
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
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Civilization Essence People Young

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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