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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.

Moliere

It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
Music and dance are all you need.
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Dance Music Need
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself

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