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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

Moliere

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Action Responsibility Silence
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

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