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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.

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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
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
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
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
Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Children Growth One Liner
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin

He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.

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