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All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe.
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The general public is easy. You don't have to answer to anyone; and as long as you follow the rules of your profession, you needn't worry about the consequences. But the problem with the powerful and rich is that when they are sick, they really want their doctors to cure them.
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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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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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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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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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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.