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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

Moliere

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
MOLIERE

Friendship Love Purity
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
MOLIERE

Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
MOLIERE

Man Precise Smart
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
MOLIERE

Manage Talk Understand
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Peace Salvation Yourself
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
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

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