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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?

Moliere

Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
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
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
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
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite

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