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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.

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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
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
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Believe God Heaven
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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Heart Integrity Virtue
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise

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