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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
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
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
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
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
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand

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