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Moliere

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
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order

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