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One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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I recover my property wherever I find it.
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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Reason is not what decides love.
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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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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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They zealots would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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