"A flatterer can risk everything with great personages."

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“A good doctor pursues his calling without any regard to a bad result. Otherwise, teaching in medical school might be called into question and where would we be then?”

“A smart daughter ought not to examine her future husband too closely. She ought to consider it a pleasure to find one agreeable to her father.”

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“The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.”

“To forbid wine to a man of your type is the same as forbidding women to a man of a different sort.”

“I wish you all sorts of prosperity with a little more taste.”

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