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A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.

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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
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Believe God Heaven
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing

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