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

Moliere

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
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
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
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
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
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
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

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

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