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With a smile we should instruct our youth.

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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
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Charm Expression Fact Lying
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Believe God Heaven
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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Drugs Equality Life Live Philosophy Worth
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Easy Myself
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

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