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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
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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