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There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.

Moliere

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Action Responsibility Silence
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
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
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
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
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
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
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Easy Myself
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time

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