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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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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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She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.
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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
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People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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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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