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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
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
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Peace Salvation Yourself
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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Friendship Man Myself Truth
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

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