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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Easy Myself
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
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
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick

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