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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

Moliere

It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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Drugs Equality Life Live Philosophy Worth
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

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