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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

Moliere

Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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Friendship Man Myself Truth
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
MOLIERE

Learning Nonsense
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
MOLIERE

Follow Lesson Peace Taste
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Herself Laughter Yourself
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
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
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

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