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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

Moliere

All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
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
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time

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