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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

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
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
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
MOLIERE

Friendship Love Purity
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Easy 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
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason

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