There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.

You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
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
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
Music and dance are all you need.
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Dance Music Need
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure

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