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

Moliere

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
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 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
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
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
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
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
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
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
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth

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