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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

Moliere

It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
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

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

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