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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

The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Action Responsibility Silence
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
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
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
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
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Believe God Heaven
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
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
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
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
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret

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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