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Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.

Moliere

Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
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
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope

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