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Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.

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Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
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
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
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
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Charm Expression Fact Lying

Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.

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