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In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.

Moliere

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
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
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
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
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
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite

In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.

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