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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

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
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
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
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Herself Laughter Yourself
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Love Maturity Money Process Writing

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