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Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!

Moliere

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
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
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
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Peace Salvation Yourself
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral

Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!

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