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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

Moliere

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
MOLIERE

Fool Ignorance Learning
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
MOLIERE

Affair Charm Gold Misery
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
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
MOLIERE

Death Knowledge Life Shadow
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
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
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity

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