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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
MOLIERE

Ambition Greatness Heart Herself Love Woman
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
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
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
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
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Honest Live Man Passion Worth
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue

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