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You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.

Moliere

Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
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
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Believe God Heaven
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart

You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.

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