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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.

Moliere

I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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Medicine Money Trade Yourself
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom

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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