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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.

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Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope

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