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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.

Moliere

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.
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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
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
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
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
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Heart Himself Man People Sincere Talk Word
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Complete Concept Road
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity

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