When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.

Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
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
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share
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
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle

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