"The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it."

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"The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself."

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"A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one."

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"Gold makes the ugly beautiful."

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"Grammar, which can govern even Kings."

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"Long is the road from conception to completion."

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"Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death."

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"Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!"

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"We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after."

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"Love is often the fruit of marriage."

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"Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion."

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"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming 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 beat the sort you can put in your pocket."

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"Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place."

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"It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable."

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"He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money."

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"It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all."

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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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"Books and marriage go ill together."

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"People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything."

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"I always write a good first line, but I have trouble in writing the others."

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"We always speak well when we manage to be understood."

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"One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others."

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