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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
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Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
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Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
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Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
[ Pleasure ]
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People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
[ Reason ]
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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]
[ Cities ]
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How many fools does it take to make up a public?
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