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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.

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To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
MOLIERE

Instruction Smile Youth
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
MOLIERE

Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
MOLIERE

Age Madam Time
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
MOLIERE

Medicine Money Trade Yourself
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
MOLIERE

Absence Minimalism
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral

Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.

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