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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

Moliere

All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
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
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
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
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

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