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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

Moliere

One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
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
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
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
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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Friendship Man Myself Truth
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Peace Salvation Yourself
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

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