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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
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
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Action Responsibility Silence
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
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
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand

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