"Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living."
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"Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain."
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"Birth is nothing where virtue is not"
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"The envious will die, but envy never. [Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]"
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"Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two."
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"You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want."
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"I recover my property wherever I find it."
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"Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it."
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"It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found."
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"There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket."
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"No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living."
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"Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly."
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"You are my peace, my solace, my salvation."
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"There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting."
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"Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest."
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"Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things."
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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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"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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"[Dom Juan] believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf."
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"Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal."
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