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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

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I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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Heart Integrity Virtue
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Heaven Known Talk
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
MOLIERE

Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
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
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True

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