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Things are only worth what you make them worth.

Moliere

Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
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
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
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
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish

Things are only worth what you make them worth.

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