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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.

Moliere

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
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
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral

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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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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