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

Moliere

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

Oneself Talk Word
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Honest Live Man Passion Worth
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
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
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue

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