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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.

Moliere

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
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
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
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
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
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue

The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.

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