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Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.

Moliere

Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
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
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon

Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.

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