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Moliere

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
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
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Better Greatness Place World
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
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.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman

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