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There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.

Moliere

Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Honest Live Man Passion Worth
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth

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