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

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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
Music and dance are all you need.
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Dance Music Need
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Honest Live Man Passion Worth
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
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
To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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Ambition Greatness Heart Herself Love Woman
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst

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