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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Moliere

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Believe God Heaven

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

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