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I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

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To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
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
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
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
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World

I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

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