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Books and marriage go ill together.

Moliere

I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
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
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
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
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

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