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They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.

Moliere

Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Honest Live Man Passion Worth
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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Drugs Equality Life Live Philosophy Worth

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