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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.

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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
MOLIERE

Born Virtue
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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Heart Integrity Virtue
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves

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