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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.

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There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Herself Laughter Yourself
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
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
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish

Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.

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