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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road
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
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
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share
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

Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.

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