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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 art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
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
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust

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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