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I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.
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It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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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.
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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We ought always to conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves. Excess either way shocks, and every man truly wise ought to attend to this in his dress as well as language, never to be affected in anything and follow without being in too great haste the changes of fashion.
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