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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

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There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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Drugs Equality Life Live Philosophy Worth
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Civilization Essence People Young
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover

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