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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.

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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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Charity Known Money Yourself
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife

It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.

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