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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

Moliere

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
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
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
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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Charity Known Money Yourself
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
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

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