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Moliere

I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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Ambition Greatness Heart Herself Love Woman
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Children Growth One Liner
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
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
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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Drugs Equality Life Live Philosophy Worth
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing

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