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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

Moliere

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Civilization Essence People Young
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
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 less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
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
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
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 right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World

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