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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.

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All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
Assassination’s the fastest way.
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Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
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
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
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
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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Drugs Equality Life Live Philosophy Worth
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
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

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