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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Action Responsibility Silence
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
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Honest Live Man Passion Worth
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary

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