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I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.

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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
MOLIERE

Prose Verse
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself

I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.

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