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

Moliere

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
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Civilization Essence People Young
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Peace Salvation Yourself
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Herself Laughter Yourself
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
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
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
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
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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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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Medicine Money Trade Yourself
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching

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

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