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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

Moliere

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
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
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
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
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
Assassination’s the fastest way.
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Assassination Death Fast Murder Way

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