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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.

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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
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
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics

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