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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.

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They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
Ah, there are no longer any children!
MOLIERE

Children Growth One Liner
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
MOLIERE

Age Madam Time
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
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.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
MOLIERE

Marriage Rule Wife
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War

All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.

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