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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.

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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
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
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
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself

It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.

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