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If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.

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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Action Responsibility Silence
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Herself Laughter Yourself
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True

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