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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

Moliere

It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
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
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
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
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage

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