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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.

Moliere

Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
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
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
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
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason

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