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

Moliere

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.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
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
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
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
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
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
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Civilization Essence People Young
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
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
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World

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

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