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I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

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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
To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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Ambition Greatness Heart Herself Love Woman
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
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
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
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
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
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
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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Medicine Money Trade Yourself
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’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching

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