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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.

Moliere

The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
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
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
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
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
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
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself

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