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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

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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.
MOLIERE

Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
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.
MOLIERE

Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
MOLIERE

Better Greatness Place World
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
MOLIERE

Age Madam Time
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
MOLIERE

Offend Public Secret Sin
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Hook Intelligence
Reason is not what decides love.
MOLIERE

Decision Love Reason
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
MOLIERE

Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
The smallest errors are always the best.
MOLIERE

Best Errors Small
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
MOLIERE

Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Heart Himself Man People Sincere Talk Word
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
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True

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