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

Moliere

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
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Peace Salvation Yourself
I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Easy Myself
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Better Greatness Place World
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife

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