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

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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Children Growth One Liner
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Peace Salvation Yourself
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing

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