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There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.

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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
MOLIERE

Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
MOLIERE

Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
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
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight
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
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

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