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

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Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Live Love Wasted
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
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason

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