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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.

Moliere

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
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
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
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue

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