"Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives."
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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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"Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.]"
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"...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing."
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"New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety."
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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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"You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense."
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"Man's greatest weakness is his love for life."
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"In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable."
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"Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety."
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"Love is often the fruit of marriage."
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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 will not leave you until I have seen you hanged."
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"Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion."
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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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"No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them."
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"The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive."
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"That must be fine, for I don't understand a word."
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"One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery."
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"The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money."
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