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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.

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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
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
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
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
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
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 ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.

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