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

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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
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
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
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
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
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience

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

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