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She is laughing up her sleeve at you.

Moliere

It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Herself Laughter Yourself
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense
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
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal

She is laughing up her sleeve at you.

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