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People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View

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