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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Honest Live Man Passion Worth
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
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
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known

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