"A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments."
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"Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty."
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"Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know."
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"All the power is with the sex that wears the beard."
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"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose."
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"Grammar, which knows how to control even kings."
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"Innocence is not accustomed to blush."
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"Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them."
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"Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing."
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"All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly."
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"Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured."
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"The envious will die, but envy never."
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"It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh."
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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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"He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure."
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"The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit."
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"With a smile we should instruct our youth."
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"Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man."
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"There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live."
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"Grammar, which can govern even Kings."
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