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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

Moliere

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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Conquer Gold Love War
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
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
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
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
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

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