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

Moliere

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Heart Himself Man People Sincere Talk Word
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
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
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself

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