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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.

Moliere

The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
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
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
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 road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road

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