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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.

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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
MOLIERE

Esteem Meaning Preference
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
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.
MOLIERE

Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself

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