New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.

That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover
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
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Action Responsibility Silence
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue

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