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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
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
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
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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Drugs Equality Life Live Philosophy Worth
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous

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