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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.

Moliere

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
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present

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