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Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

Moliere

Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
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
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
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
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself

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