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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

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Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
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
Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Children Growth One Liner
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Believe God Heaven
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Herself Laughter Yourself
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong

The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

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