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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.

Moliere

We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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Medicine Money Trade Yourself
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Believe God Heaven
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
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
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
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

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