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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

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
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
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
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner

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