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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.

Moliere

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Peace Salvation Yourself
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
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
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Charm Expression Fact Lying
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue

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