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Moliere

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Civilization Essence People Young
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
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
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
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True

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