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There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.

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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
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
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous

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