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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!

Moliere

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
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
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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Medicine Money Trade Yourself
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Honest Live Man Passion Worth
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow

Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!

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