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

Moliere

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
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
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
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
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
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
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
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Love Maturity Money Process Writing
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself

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