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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.

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Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Honest Live Man Passion Worth
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
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.
MOLIERE

Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
MOLIERE

Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
MOLIERE

Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
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
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
MOLIERE

Honor Share
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
MOLIERE

Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
MOLIERE

Job Laughter People
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE

Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
MOLIERE

Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession

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