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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

Moliere

Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
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
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
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
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True

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