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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.

Moliere

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Better Greatness Place World
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
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 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
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
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself

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