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

Moliere

There is no protection against slander.
MOLIERE

Protection
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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Bad Goodness
A woman always has her revenge ready.
MOLIERE

Herself Revenge Woman
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
MOLIERE

Love Season Thinking
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
MOLIERE

Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE

Finding Heaven Pleasure True
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
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
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
MOLIERE

Learning People Quality
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Heaven Known Talk
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth

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