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As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

Moliere

In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Easy Myself
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
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
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 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
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference

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