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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

Moliere

Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
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
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
Music and dance are all you need.
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Dance Music Need
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
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
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage

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