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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
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
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary

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