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Moliere

It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
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
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Children Growth One Liner
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
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety

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