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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.

Moliere

Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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Ambition Greatness Heart Herself Love Woman
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Heart Himself Man People Sincere Talk Word
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Love Maturity Money Process Writing
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk

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