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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

Moliere

unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
MOLIERE

Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue

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