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Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.

Moliere

There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Charm Expression Fact Lying
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
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 world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World

Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.

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