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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!

Moliere

The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
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
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
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
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
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
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 less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road

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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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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