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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

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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
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Live Love Wasted
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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Heart Integrity Virtue
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
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
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
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
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
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
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

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