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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.

Moliere

I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Believe God Heaven
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
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
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time

The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.

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