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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

Moliere

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
MOLIERE

Greatness Love Master Teaching
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
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
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Action Responsibility Silence
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word

Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

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