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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
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
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Blush Innocence One Liner
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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Drugs Equality Life Live Philosophy Worth
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Love Maturity Money Process Writing
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice

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