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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.

Moliere

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
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
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War

When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.

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