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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.

Moliere

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
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
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
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
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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Heart Integrity Virtue
Assassination’s the fastest way.
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Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself

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