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There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.

Moliere

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
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
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
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
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
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
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
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue

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