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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

Moliere

People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
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
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
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
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Children Growth One Liner
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Love Maturity Money Process Writing
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Better Greatness Place World

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

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