Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.