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

Moliere

Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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Heart Integrity Virtue
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue

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