"Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts."
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"Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer."
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"Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters."
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"The great ambition of women is to inspire love."
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"A woman always has her revenge ready."
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"The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu."
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"All is wholesome in the absence of excess."
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"When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten."
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"Deference and intimacy live far apart."
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"What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?"
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"Malicious men may die, but malice never."
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"We die only once, and for such a long time."
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"Virtue is the first title of nobility."
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"Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all."
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"It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right."
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"True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise."
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"Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner."
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"But it is not reason that governs love."
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"I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name."
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"There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!"
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