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Moliere

I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
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
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
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
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover
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
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense
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
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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Ambition Greatness Heart Herself Love Woman
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World

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