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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.

Moliere

Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Honest Live Man Passion Worth
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Children Growth One Liner
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
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
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking

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