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The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.

Moliere

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
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
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
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
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
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
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason

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