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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.

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There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
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
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
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
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
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
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Easy Myself

Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.

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