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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.

Moliere

Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
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
There is no protection against slander.
MOLIERE

Protection
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
MOLIERE

Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
MOLIERE

Angry Right Wrong
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
MOLIERE

Marriage Rule Wife
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
MOLIERE

Cook Food Himself World
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room

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