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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure 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
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Honest Live Man Passion Worth
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live

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