Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
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The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
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The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed.
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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
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