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

Moliere

When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Peace Salvation Yourself
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret

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