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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Complete Concept Road
I have the knack of easing scruples.
MOLIERE

Easy Myself
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
MOLIERE

Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
MOLIERE

Beyond Compare Try World
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
MOLIERE

Absence Minimalism
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
MOLIERE

Age Madam Time
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste

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