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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!

Moliere

Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
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 great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
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
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Love Maturity Money Process Writing
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
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
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity

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