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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

All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Peace Salvation Yourself
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
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
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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Ambition Greatness Heart Herself Love Woman
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Blush Innocence One Liner
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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Heart Integrity Virtue
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World

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