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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.

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There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men

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