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There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
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
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
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
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
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
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness

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