Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
MOLIERE
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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Reason is not what decides love.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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