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.

When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Live Love Wasted
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love

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