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No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

Moliere

The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
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
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
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
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
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
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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Charity Known Money Yourself
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way

No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

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