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

Moliere

There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
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
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
Music and dance are all you need.
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Dance Music Need
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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Medicine Money Trade Yourself
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Blush Innocence One Liner
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself

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