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

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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
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
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself

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