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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

A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
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
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Action Responsibility Silence
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True

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