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

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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
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
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
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
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman

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

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