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The envious will die, but envy never.

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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
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

The envious will die, but envy never.

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