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To live without loving is not really to live.

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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Love Maturity Money Process Writing
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Believe God Heaven
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
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
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend

To live without loving is not really to live.

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