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People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.

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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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Friendship Man Myself Truth
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
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
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work

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