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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
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
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Action Responsibility Silence
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
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
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Love Maturity Money Process Writing

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