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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.

Moliere

You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
MOLIERE

Learning Nonsense
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
MOLIERE

Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Herself Laughter Yourself
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Honest Live Man Passion Worth
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way

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