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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
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
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
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

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