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Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.

Moliere

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
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
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
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.
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Ambition Greatness Heart Herself Love Woman
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex

Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.

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