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To live without loving is not really to live.

Moliere

It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Blush Innocence One Liner
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
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
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Herself Laughter Yourself
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
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
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right

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