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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.

Moliere

Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Children Growth One Liner
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
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
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
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

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