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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

A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side

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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