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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.

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There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
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
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
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

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