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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.

Moliere

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
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
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
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road

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