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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

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All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Believe God Heaven
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
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
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue

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