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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

Moliere

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
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price
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
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Easy Myself
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Heart Himself Man People Sincere Talk Word
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality

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