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Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.

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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
MOLIERE

Brilliance Touch True
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
MOLIERE

Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE

Finding Heaven Pleasure True
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
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket

Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.

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