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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.

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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
MOLIERE

Cultivation Interest People
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
Assassination’s the fastest way.
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Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Believe God Heaven
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
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
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
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True

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