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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

Moliere

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
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
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Better Greatness Place World
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Heart Himself Man People Sincere Talk Word
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning

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