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The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.

Moliere

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Blush Innocence One Liner
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
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
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try 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
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
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

The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.

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