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

Moliere

You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Civilization Essence People Young
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
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
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People

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