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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.

Moliere

Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
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 believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
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

Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.

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