People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
MOLIERE
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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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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To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Music and dance are all you need.
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A woman always has her revenge ready.
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It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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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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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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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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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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