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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.

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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
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage
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
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success

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