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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

Moliere

I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
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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Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Honest Live Man Passion Worth
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
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
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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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
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
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Children Growth One Liner

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

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