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All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe

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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
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
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
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
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
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Heart Himself Man People Sincere Talk Word
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
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
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
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
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves

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