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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.

Moliere

Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Easy Myself
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
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
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself

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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