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The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.

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You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Peace Salvation Yourself
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
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
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
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
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous

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