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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
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
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
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
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous

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