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We are all mortals, and each is for himself.

Moliere

Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
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
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Believe God Heaven
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous

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