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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.

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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
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
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Believe God Heaven
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Civilization Essence People Young
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow

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