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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
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
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
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Charm Expression Fact Lying
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself

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