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There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.

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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
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
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself

There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.

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