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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

Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Charm Expression Fact Lying
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk

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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