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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

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No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
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
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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Friendship Man Myself Truth
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Assassination’s the fastest way.
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Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope

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