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One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

Moliere

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
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Better Greatness Place World
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

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