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I have the knack of easing scruples.

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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
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
MOLIERE

Affair Charm Gold Misery
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
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
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Heart Himself Man People Sincere Talk Word

I have the knack of easing scruples.

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