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Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.

Moliere

It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
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
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
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste

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