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Deference and intimacy live far apart.

Moliere

I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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Ambition Greatness Heart Herself Love Woman
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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