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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

Moliere

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
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
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
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
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
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
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
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
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success

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