You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.

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Do as we say, and not as we do.

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While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

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Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.

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They brought it to a common saying there that the most acceptable service one could render to God was to put the devil in Hell.

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Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.

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here be said save that even in poor cottages there rain down divine spirits from heaven, like as in princely palaces there be those who were worthier to tend swine than to have lordship over men.

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Senseless creatures, you don't see how much evil is concealed under a little good appearance.

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La giovane, che non era di ferro né di diamante, assai agevolmente si piegò ai piaceri dello abate.

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Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.

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