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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!

Moliere

Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue

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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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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