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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

Moliere

There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
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
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Civilization Essence People Young
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
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
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself

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