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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.

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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Children Growth One Liner
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
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
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word

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