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I live on good soup, not on fine words.

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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
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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Charity Known Money Yourself
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
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
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way

I live on good soup, not on fine words.

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