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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.

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Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Heart Himself Man People Sincere Talk Word
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Love Maturity Money Process Writing
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason

Two wives? That exceeds the custom.

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