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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

Moliere

Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious 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 maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Love Maturity Money Process Writing
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
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Better Greatness Place World
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Honest Live Man Passion Worth
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Peace Salvation Yourself
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

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