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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
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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Ambition Greatness Heart Herself Love Woman
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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Friendship Man Myself Truth
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst

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