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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice

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