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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.

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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
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
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
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
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover
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

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