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Things are only worth what you make them worth.

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I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
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
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
MOLIERE

Prose Verse
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
MOLIERE

Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
MOLIERE

Better Death Marriage
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
MOLIERE

Karma Secret
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
MOLIERE

Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Children Growth One Liner
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise

Things are only worth what you make them worth.

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