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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?

Moliere

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Action Responsibility Silence
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Charm Expression Fact Lying
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage
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
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue

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