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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

Moliere

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
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
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
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
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
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

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