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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
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
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
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
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong

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