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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

Moliere

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
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Heart Himself Man People Sincere Talk Word
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
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
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People

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