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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

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In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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Ambition Greatness Heart Herself Love Woman
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Honest Live Man Passion Worth
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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Medicine Money Trade Yourself
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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Charity Known Money Yourself
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
Music and dance are all you need.
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Dance Music Need
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World
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
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick

Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

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