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Books and marriage go ill together.

Moliere

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom

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