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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.

Moliere

I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
MOLIERE

Cultivation Interest People
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Love Maturity Money Process Writing
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
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
MOLIERE

Himself Spiritual

Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.

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