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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

Moliere

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.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse 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
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense

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