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How easy love makes fools of us.

Moliere

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
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
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction

How easy love makes fools of us.

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