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There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!

Moliere

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
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
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
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
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Civilization Essence People Young
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
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
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Live Love Wasted
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Complete Concept Road
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
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
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Heart Himself Man People Sincere Talk Word
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
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand

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